Passage 4

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In plain words

When right understanding is gained, you can test all actions by it and decide which is the highest and which the lowest. Thinking that taking refuge in the power of God was itself the way to win release from slavery to the foreigners, Gāndhījī prayed, ‘May all find sacred right understanding.’

In the spiritual way of Bhārata the body has its value: no one teaches that it must be tormented, that it must be cast off. The message of the culture of Bhārata is just this: we must not despise it. The body is a temple of God: for good conduct, good company, good deeds, for all these the body is essential. To behold God, the body must be there without fail. Free of both, the wandering mind and the wavering intellect, you must hold to the vow called realisation and achieve it.

Once you have taken up God's work, whatever comes in the way, happiness or sorrow, you must pay it no heed. Hanumān bowed his head to Rāma's command, gave up sleep and food and searched for Sītā Devī; he combed every place. Crossing the ocean, he set out by the path of the sky for the island of Laṅkā. Midway, Mount Maināka rose up out of the sea and came up: “Hanumān! You are very tired.